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Socialist countries like Yugoslavia garnered legitimacy through
appealing to social equality. Yet social stratification was
characteristic of Yugoslav society and increased over the course of
the state's existence. By the 1980s the country was divided on
socio-economic as well as national lines. Through case studies from
a range of social millieux, contributors to this volume seek to
'bring class back in' to Yugoslav historiography, exploring how
theorisations of social class informed the politics and policies of
social mobility and conversely, how societal or grassroots
understandings of class have influenced politics and policy. Rather
than focusing on regional differentiation between Yugoslav
republics and provinces the emphasis is placed on social
differentiation and discontent within particular communities. The
contributing authors of these historical studies come from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds, linking scholarship from the socialist
era to contemporary research based on accessing newly available
primary sources. Voices of a wide spectrum of informants are
included in the volume; from factory workers and subsistence
farmers to fictional television characters and pop-folk music
superstars.
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies
between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a
critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy
transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the
field, it argues that treating policy's movement as an active
process of 'translation', in which policies are interpreted,
inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical
importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and
accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining
policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those
studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate
levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case
studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and
productive introduction to rethinking policy studies through
translation. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of
thinking and doing 'policy otherwise'.
Socialist countries like Yugoslavia garnered legitimacy through
appealing to social equality. Yet social stratification was
characteristic of Yugoslav society and increased over the course of
the state's existence. By the 1980s the country was divided on
socio-economic as well as national lines. Through case studies from
a range of social millieux, contributors to this volume seek to
'bring class back in' to Yugoslav historiography, exploring how
theorisations of social class informed the politics and policies of
social mobility and conversely, how societal or grassroots
understandings of class have influenced politics and policy. Rather
than focusing on regional differentiation between Yugoslav
republics and provinces the emphasis is placed on social
differentiation and discontent within particular communities. The
contributing authors of these historical studies come from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds, linking scholarship from the socialist
era to contemporary research based on accessing newly available
primary sources. Voices of a wide spectrum of informants are
included in the volume; from factory workers and subsistence
farmers to fictional television characters and pop-folk music
superstars.
This international, edited collection brings together personal
accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores
the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and
positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the
complexity of methodological choices. It highlights the
researchers' own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of
conflict research that goes beyond the 'messiness' inherent in the
process of research in and on violence. It addresses the
uncomfortable spaces of conflict research, the potential for
violence of research itself and the need for deeper reflection on
these issues. This powerful book opens up spaces for new
conversations about the realities of conflict research. These
critical self-reflections and honest accounts provide important
insights for any scholar or practitioner working in similar
environments.
This comprehensive and engaging book investigates the role of
international actors in the making of social policy in South East
Europe. Introductory chapters on transnationalism and
Europeanization are followed by a series of nine linked case
studies depicting research undertaken within this region. The book
charts the variable influence that international actors such as
formal organizations, non-governmental organizations, consulting
companies and individual transnational policy entrepreneurs have on
key policy issues, including pensions, social protection, labour
markets and health. The authors conclude that welfare settlements
are a complex product of historical and institutional legacies, the
neo-liberal interventions of the World Bank, the emerging impact of
the EU, and the crowded international arena resulting from war and
post-war reconstruction agendas. Written by leading researchers in
the field, Social Policy and International Interventions in South
East Europe will be of great interest to researchers and students
of social policy, policy studies and regional studies, as well as
policymakers within international and governmental organizations.
This international, edited collection brings together personal
accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores
the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and
positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the
complexity of methodological choices. It highlights the
researchers' own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of
conflict research that goes beyond the 'messiness' inherent in the
process of research in and on violence. It addresses the
uncomfortable spaces of conflict research, the potential for
violence of research itself and the need for deeper reflection on
these issues. This powerful book opens up spaces for new
conversations about the realities of conflict research. These
critical self-reflections and honest accounts provide important
insights for any scholar or practitioner working in similar
environments.
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies
between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a
critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy
transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the
field, it argues that treating policy's movement as an active
process of 'translation', in which policies are interpreted,
inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical
importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and
accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining
policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those
studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate
levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case
studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and
productive introduction to rethinking policy studies through
translation. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of
thinking and doing 'policy otherwise'.
After a summit in Belgrade in September 1961, socialist Yugoslavia,
led by President Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980, initiated
a movement with states in the Global South. The Non-Aligned
Movement not only offered an alternative to the Cold War
polarization between NATO and the Warsaw Pact but also expressed
the hopes of a world emerging from colonial domination. Socialist
Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement investigates the
Non-Aligned Movement both as a top-down, interstate initiative and
as a site for transnational exchange in science, art and culture,
architecture, education, and industry. Re-invigorating older
debates by consulting newly available sources, the volume
challenges studies that marginalize the role of socialist
Yugoslavia in the Non-Aligned Movement. Contributors address topics
such as women's involvement, antifascism and anti-imperialism,
cultural and educational exchange, tensions in Yugoslav diplomacy,
competing understandings of economic development, the role of the
Yugoslav construction company Energoprojekt, Yugoslav relations
with Latin America and Africa, and contemporary support for
refugees and asylum seekers as a kind of practical and affective
afterlife of Yugoslavia's non-aligned commitments. Socialist
Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement offers an innovative
approach to one of the twentieth century's most important
international movements and confronts issues of economic, social,
and cultural rights that remain relevant today.
This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare
trajectories of post-socialist countries across Central, Eastern
and South Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. It traces
the impacts, in terms of poverty, well-being, and inequality, of
over two decades of transformation, addressing both the legacy
effects of socialist welfare systems and the installation of new
social, political, and economic structures and, in many cases, new
independent nation-states. Authors from different disciplines
address key aspects of social protection including health care,
poverty reduction measures, active labour market policies, pension
systems, and child welfare systems.
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